[TYPO3-english] Import from tt_news into tx_news fails

Georg Ringer typo3 at ringerge.org
Tue May 27 13:37:12 CEST 2014


Am 27.05.2014 11:38, schrieb Torsten Crass:
> Georg,
> 
> Quote: Georg Ringer wrote on Tue, 27 May 2014 10:28
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>> tx_news in that case
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> 
> just before you replied, I installed both extensions from git and can
> now confirm that at least category import does work properly. I haven't
> tried out the actual news import yet since I'd like to first ask for
> clarification regarding some of the news extension's settings available
> through the extension manager. 

I guess having a backup and just pressing the button would have been
faster than just writing this msg - because you need the backup anyways ;)


In particular, I'm not sure about the
> - modules.storageUidImporter

this is the UID of the FAL storage driver to be used.

> - modules.resourceFolderImporter

this is the path inside the FAL storage used to place the files

> The thing is, I have multiple sites running under the same Typo3
> installation, each (well, at least: some of them) featuring its own
> sysfolder for news & news category storage. While importing categories,
> all system categories newly creaded from the original tt_news categories
> where placed in the sysfolders they originally resided in. That's
> exactly the behaviour I was hoping for -- apart from the fact that *all*
> categories from *all* sysfolders scattered *all over* the sites were
> imported, despite the fact that I had a specific sysfolder selected in
> the page tree when running the importer.

yeah categories are imported to the place they have been before. if you
want to put them more together, just do an update statement in sql.

> So I wonder what will happen when running a news import job and in how
> far its result will be influenced by the above mentioned settings. In
> particular, I wonder
> 
> - if news import will be restricted to news found within a sysfolder /
> subtree selected in the page tree, and

all records will be imported.

> - if the imported news will get stored in their original location or in
> the page record declared by modules.storageUidImporter?

same as tt_news, the storage is about the files. see above

Thanks for providing feedback if all worked out


Georg


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